The speaker's all-caps font of choice implies a certain smugness; the "PAPA" protagonist has engaged in unrespectable behavior, but this behavior was so far geographically removed from the artwork's installation (on a hallway door in Tennessee, USA) that perhaps "PAPA" expected the illicit, economically-prompted fucking in question would not come to light back at home.

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"Looking back at Star Trek, more than four decades after Roddenberry's vision entered our homes, what's remarkable is how much it captured a still extant American optimism and an American cultural smugness. The optimism today has been muted, but the smugness -- not so much. After all, official American 'expeditionary forces' continue to travel the 'final frontiers' of our own planet, if not the galaxy, armed to the teeth with our own versions of phasers and photon torpedoes. At the same time, most of us continue to see ourselves as a peace-loving, Federation-like crew, a force for progress, for international cooperation, and above all for good."- William Astore, Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise, tomdispatch.com, 26 March 2009.